Moved by the Past : : Discontinuity and Historical Mutation / / Eelco Runia.
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks wit...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) : |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Burying the Dead, Creating the Past
- 2. "Forget about it"
- 3. Presence
- 4. Spots of time
- 5. Thirsting for Deeds
- 6. Into Cleanness leaping
- 7. Inventing the new from the old
- 8. Crossing the Wires in the Pleasure machine
- 9. Our own best Enemy
- Coda
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter